skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Installing any app you want -- and any app store you want -- on your own device ought to be an inalienable right.

You're acting like:
1. Jailbreaking doesn't exist.
2. Apple is actively working to prevent people from jailbreaking their devices.

This is simply not the case. Apple is neither technically nor legally hindering anyone's ability to jailbreak their devices.

Your problem is analogous to complaining you ought to have the inalienable right to go outside, but you were born in a home with doors. But once you open the door, the world is yours for the taking. No one is stopping you.
context: http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Spice_blow
OKCupid is owned by Match.com, I've never used OKC but it's probably part of the Match sales funnel and so if you average out the LTV of one conversion to a paid monthly subscription and distribute it out over X number of free users 5 dollars a year isn't outside the realm of possibility.
Entrepreneurs would be better off if houses were $1 each not $1m each because our wealth comes from our businesses. However, for much of the past century most of the wealth accumulated by middle class America has come from their real estate investments. It's common for an urban or suburban house bought for $50,000 in the 1960s - 1970s to now be worth $500,000. So it actually is a triumph for many Americans when housing prices go up. Until of course they rise too quickly and we have a crash.
Proposed response to SEO firms from India spamming their services
Needed a cut and paste thing for these guys... getting too many emails every time we launch a site.

"Thanks for your interest. I am afraid we are suffering from a complete lack of interest in your proposal. It appears to be a severe and acute case. Should we recover from this I will let you know, but at this point it looks pretty terminal.

Best regards,
XXX"
Paginating lists or paginating arbitrarily within long text content? There is a massive difference between the two.
>> If not, I can always do an anonymous one.

It is not fair to the buyer to give out any info after the sale that you wouldn't be willing to give out before the sale.
IOS 6 Maps is data-efficient compared to predecessor
Yeah, green is what I tend to for productive. As a sign to "go on!". So I will probably make leisure red. Even though it might be a bit strange to have such a strong color for a nice time.
It's better than nothing, but please take their users' explanations of lyrics with a huge grain of salt. Many of them are written by people who do not really know anything about rap music.
> People shouldn't be so harsh to independent authors.

The mantra of the critique culture is that you are not your ideas. Criticism of the idea does not imply criticism of the author – at least not in my world.
Skydiver aims to break sound barrier, highest, fastest free fall ever attempted
4 inches
Sounds like a cool business!
Exactly. I am guessing you would need at least 4 - 5 times the pageview/hr to handle a website with 375 Million PV/M load.
How To Turn Failures Into A Lifetime Of Success
Designing Domus magazine on iPad
That's great feedback. We are not really a jobs board...think of us like a recruiter who is technical and actually does their job right. Recruiters take upwards of 40% for project matches...that are pretty bad.(from what I've heard from talking to other freelancers)
Truly appreciate the feedback. And you're spot on about the FAQ page. Going to get that up sooner than later.
Of course not, I would never do anything to jeopardize that. I'd only post if I could do so in a way that both parties approved.
Like all of ancestry's acquisitions, all this content that was gathered by various people will now be placed behind a pay wall that ancestry will assert ownership and control rights over.
Charges users. No ads.
How to measure your Javascript to the nanosecond level
subject.should_receive(:popular).and_return(subject)

Now you're testing that your piece of code is calling the "popular" method, but you have no idea whether or not that method even exists in your implementation. Too much mocking is worse than "no mocking", because "no mocking" is slow but it doesn't tell you lies.
There was Apture which was doing similar. They got bought by Google last year.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/10/google-buys-contextual-rich...
Very interesting article, IMO.

I feel like the technical challenges involved in a distributed social network that the author mentions -- keeping profile views secret, for example -- could easily be overcome if the network were implemented over an encrypted layer such as TOR.

Wikipedia has a list of distributed social networking projects [1], many of which support such encryption. I suppose the problem then becomes one of adoption more than anything else. I could see the latency issues associated with encryption and anonymization being an issue in this respect. It's another Catch-22.

I suspect the only thing that can dethrone Facebook will be a significant event that will trigger a mass exodus.

Edit: After reading through the site a bit, it seems that Friendica [2] is indeed production ready. They definitely need some better marketing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_social_network

[2] http://friendica.com/
William Gibson, the Art of Fiction
Free WIFI:FreedomPop provides 500MB of free data a month on a 4G network
IPhone 5 halo de lumière sur les photos?
=) well, live it up and go ahead and use this as a platform for your ideas – I'm sure many would like to hear about it/your plans for it in greater detail, if you're so inclined.
This will never work. It reduces incentives for all mid- to upper-level IT managers. They can no longer revel in the pain they cause users, nor can they enjoy the feeling of tightly controlling everything.

Also, no more discreet rounds of Bikini Golf in the Bahamas with 20-something sales staff of large software vendors.

Like I said, this will never work.
Appreciate the feedback. And thanks for the kind words on the design. That was all done by our good friend Brice Faubel (www.bricefaubel.com).
Red, for me, has always been school/education ... maybe because I started assigning the colours when I was still in high school.
Yeah these do kind of look like they have shadows. Plus a rocky outcrop could still be fairly flat and cast minimal shadows. I say it's rock and call Occam's razor on the other theories.
how are you guys different from GroupTalent?
It's funny that I'm seeing this today, since just yesterday I was reading about varnish. I've been given the task of scaling up my first big Wordpress site for a client, which has been running pretty slowly -- it's been getting about 3 million uniques per month. I'm thinking the nginx-varnish setup described in the article that appeared on HN a few months ago (linked to elsewhere in this thread) may be the best way to go, along with throwing some more hardware at it. Does anybody have any additional thoughts about this process for a noob like me?
I like the freestyle music in the background. Makes the videos seem more on-the-spot.
FYI, Pinboard.in already does this for your Twitter account.

Pinboard uses the Twitter API to fetch all your tweets, but as far as I can tell Buffer is not going to see anything you didn't use Buffer to post.
It's not just the vocals you're losing, you're losing everything in the center of the mix. Typically that means kick drums, deep basses and anything else lower than about 120Hz (these pieces are always mixed in mono), plus vocals, and a lot of times snare drums.
It's getting past informative when I see it posted on every story that involves a question mark. It's an annoying HN meme that needs to go away.
This is a great idea. Screening clients in addition to developers creates the right kind of marketplace for both sides, one that is focused more on quality work than price. If you screen effectively and still have enough good clients left over, this will bring in the strong developers, which will in turn generate greater interest from clients. Kudos! I hope you can pull it off.
#79509 here and was AC posting quite a bit before ever signing up. I've actually got a few accounts there and my oldest was hardly used for posting even back then.

Surprisingly I still remember my password on /. though I hadn't used that password in many years.

Lucky thing I remember it too since the email account (gfm@my-dejanews.com) registered to the /. account is long since dead.
Slashdot had an incredible influence on my perception of computers, the internet, privacy, and participation. Though I don't remember the subject, I remember printing out my first successful submission and posting it on the wall.
Why Your Startup’s Name Matters
My understanding is that GroupTalent works with bigger companies to subcontract freelance talent. We are not working with large companies, but entrepreneurs/agencies/smaller entities.
Where in Brooklyn do they want to do this?
North Greenpoint?
My parents, in there late seventies, are just now deciding to give computers a try! I would be excited to share something like this with them and help preserve their story and our collective family history.
This looks interesting. How does Machist get their clients? And what do they do to ensure client quality? A bad client who doesn't really know what they want, or over/under communicates can be a burden. I feel like the only way to attract top clients is to build a great reputation with top devs, which is like a chicken/egg thing.

And how does the communication with clients work? Does matchist drop you off once you're on the job, leaving you to your own devices with the client? Or do they help out/mediate along the way? And how do they continue to collect their 10% fee after communication has been established between freelancer and client? Freelance projects can drag on for a long time. What happens if the client doesn't like the work and refuses to pay, or wants infinite changes and additions?

Many people have balked at a 10% fee, but I'm great with that as long as finding work requires 0 effort on my part. I do wonder about how well this will scale
Pardon my idiotic question, but why don't they just drive over there and check them out? Or are they just in a totally different place than the rover (like asking why someone in North America can't just hop over and check out Uluru)?
ilan, one of the founders of rap genius here..

we're ready to blow up the bank accounts of brilliant engineers (rails, ios) and designers who want to help us create the internet talmud™

if you're interested, send links to stuff you've built or any work you're proud of! jobs@rapgenius.com

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Hey guys, I wrote this thing, and ready to discuss it here on HN. Come at me with your best shot!
From the site:
"Our goal is to raise $5,000,000. Our modest crowdfunding goal to get us started is $1,500,000."

$1.5MM hardly seems modest.
Can you tell what we do?
Hey everyone, I'm in the middle of redesigning my start ups landing page to better illustrate what we do.

Being involved in it makes it difficult for me to determine how clear our message is.

So, a sentence or two on what you think we do would be a huge help.

Thanks, Guys Here's the page www.testmymarketing.com/
Unemployment is not pleasant in the US. I'm inclined to believe that most people from a Western nation would up and leave willingly if they weren't having much success, and that people from less developed nations would too if they weren't able to claim benefits. Being an immigrant isn't easy after all - if you're going to be unemployed it's probably easier to be unemployed in your home nation where you have a support network.
What Do You Suck At?
Why not a percentage, and what compensation structure would you prefer?
I'd like to think that this would rather make artists more independant and kill the music industry.
The evolution of innovation
Any thoughts on d3 vs raph? I lean towards raph, but d3 looks nice,too.
Maybe (ok, not maybe) I'm getting too philosophical about such decisions these days, but Google is, at it's heart, an ad company that happens to be really good at tech. Nokia is a tech company that is really good at tech. My choice is Nokia - they're just a closer match to the view I have of myself.
I didn't try it but I went back and tried it today. I like the general idea behind it, and it was pretty slick. Still feels empty though. The idea behind explaining things like "more processor would be a waste" or whatever is great. I'd emphasize that more and expand on that. Might eliminate that "oh that's it?" feeling I had.
Great question, cause I am in the same boat.
One thing I was looking into was "Startup Visa", more info here: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f...
The other thing was the E2 Visa, however for some unknown reason, it is not available to Indians due to lack of treaty. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa
As taurussai has mentioned, work on the application and interview and the amazing YC community can help sort out the rest.
P.S. - If any of YC Community would be open to sharing how to make it work, it would be great for future YC candidates.
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I don't think that app.net is selling an identity service that will take off or be worthwhile, but I strenuously disagree with the assertion that people won't pay for single sign in on the Internet.

It is, in my opinion, the number one pain point on the web today. It affects users of all technical levels and the more you have invested in the web the worse it gets.
Implementing a stack with proofs in ATS
That's fine, but there's a difference between a critique and a flame. There are an awful lot of flames in this thread. Also, as Hegel says, anything that exists is reasonable, and an "unreasonable" reason for not releasing code is still a valid one.

In any case, my main reason for withholding things is the "guilt" factor I mention at the end of my previous comment.
Ali haven't bothered to read the transcript, but I cannot imagine that "THAT EXPERIENCE" can in any way refer to a case that wasn't mentioned in the trial.
How would those plants have gotten onto the surface Mars?
Pretty sure everyone here would be willing to offer those terms.
This isn't asking for advice, it's pitching a sale.

Title is misleading, and the cynic in me suspects that is intentional.

PS - nothing against selling businesses on HN, just don't hack our collective desire to read advice on selling businesses to get your submission to the front page.

PPS - a suggestion for an alternative: "Selling profitable business, first time, first dibs to HN for your advice". That offers value for value, is straight up about your intent, and would probably still get it to the front page.
Yep, that is definitely planned. Especially a karma-like system to reward users who work. Since you're helping people by providing tldrs, we are thinking about the count of people who read tldrs you created, meaning the number of people you helped.
"Shipping container architecture gets a lot of encouraging coverage in the design world as a trendy green alternative to traditional building materials, and seems like a smart choice for people looking for eco-consciousness. However, there are a lot of downsides to building with cargo containers. For instance, the coatings used to make the containers durable for ocean transport also happen to contain a number of harmful chemicals, such as chromate, phosphorous, and lead-based paints. Moreover, wood floors that line the majority of shipping container buildings are infused with hazardous chemical pesticides like arsenic and chromium to keep pests away."

YIKES!!
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4589264

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2895474

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144548
Pinboard's founder seems (understandably) a little unsure as to the future of that part of the service:

"I am optimistic that Twitter will clarify their terms of service with regard to personal backups. In 2012, it remains impossible for a Twitter user to do a full export from their Twitter account. The only way to effectively store and search tweets is through third-party sites."

http://blog.pinboard.in/2012/09/twitter_and_pinboard/
The product is really more geared for you to use with them as your family's digital ambassador. ;)
For such jobs, big corps do hire PhDs. These jobs are almost always in a research department (i.e. they won't hire a PhD to code). But these jobs are maybe 1% of all jobs in big corps.
I'm not being pretentious. I'm demanding that before you spout off about the intelligence of a group of people, you back it up with a reason for why you think that way. Otherwise your comment/opinion is utterly without value and shouldn't have been posted at all.
Great questions!

"How does Machist get their clients?"
We are utilizing a combination of content marketing, working our own networks, and participating in various startup communities to find entrepreneurial clients looking to build their betas and MVPs.

"And what do they do to ensure client quality?"
We used a combination of a personal phone call and their submitted information to determine the quality of the client and their submitted project.

"And how does the communication with clients work?"
Once we've matched you and the client has funded the first milestone through our payment system, you're set off on your own to get your work done. When you need to communicate with the client, you can do so using the matchist internal messaging. Each time you need to get paid or have a client fund a milestone, you will do so through the matchist interface.

"Or do they help out/mediate along the way?"
If you and your client can't come to an agreement about a dispute, we're happy to step in and help out.

We're in the process of getting a developer FAQ page up to get all these common questions answered immediately for ya.
Even so, the benefits vastly outweigh the downsides.
The elephant in the room is that unlike on android phones, there is no hardware 'back' button on iPhone. Where is it instead (by convention)? The top left corner of the screen, ie, the most unreachable place on the new iPhone. I'm still amazed this thing was produced by Apple given that oversight.
Universal Man in the Browser Attacks
Interesting note that mp3 compression does not keep the L/R channels perfectly independent. Since this means on playback the L/R fidelity is not 100%, you will have better results creating a difference signal with a lossless/uncompressed file than an mp3.
Yes. It hurts you when recruiting employees and winning customers too. It's not insurmountable, obviously, but it's a significant handicap. Hit the gym and pay attention to how you look overall: zits, bad hair, body odor, bad clothes, bad table manners also hurt you.
I pretty much agree with all your points, but you are conflating several issues.
http://i.saac.me/post/what-if-bittorrent-was-invented-before... I wrote an article discussing similar themes on my blog a while back, and I too think the Kickstarter model is the future of the creative industries.

(I might do a follow up to that article with some further thoughts. Basically, I think the reason the crowd patronage model is the future is because it allows the artist to cover their fixed, up-front costs. Since the Internet has made distribution costs effectively 0, covering your fixed costs is the way to go)
> I wouldn't be worried about the effect on the business so much as the effect on the personal relationships.

Yep. Would you sue a friend if he doesn't pay back borrowed money? Doing business means accepting inevitable business constraints. Constraints that are at odds with friendship.
So say more about this : "I'd like to focus my attention on other ventures."

2 emails a day? 4-8 hrs of ops work per quarter? That is a pretty trivial amount of 'distraction' (compared to say raising a child while working).

So this is where I get lost, if this is true it would be trivial to actually hire someone to be your email responder (they can be anywhere, so someone with a detailed FAQ and a solid command of the English language (or what ever is the primary language of your users) could do this for maybe $7500/year. (that is paying them $20 for each email they answer) And a contract sysadmin, say with an open contract at $150/hr that 8hrs per quarter is another $4,800/yr so call it $12,500 in 'additional expenses' taking that from your revenue nets you on the order of $60K / yr still rolling into your bank account and you have 99% of your time to work on other stuff. (you'll still have to 'watch' things but you don't have to 'do' things). I'd love to know why you are selling it.

That said, one way to price this is to consider what the expected rate of return is. So given our $60K/year revenue you could invest $180,000 have it make zero interest and withdraw it at $60,000 a year and in 3 years you would be out of money. Personally, I'd consider anything over $180K to be too much to pay for this business. But the assumption is that I am only confident that the business will run reliably under new ownership for 3 years. On a regular investment instrument I'd want to know what the final value was (at the end of the term) and a pessimist will assume zero and an optimist with assume they can re-sell the business for what they paid for it. If you are an optimist you might ask "how much can I invest, at what rate, to give me a net $60K/yr return?" Well at 5% simple interest that is $1.2M. Since we're not counting taxes in our 60K number we'll assume that both returns can be 'income' grade (which is to say taxed as regular income). If you can show that the business has a 20 year lifetime then something along those lines would inform a higher valuation.

So my advice to you on pricing a business is to ask this simple question, "What other choices does someone have which can get them this return at a comparable risk over this time frame? And at the end of the term how much value is 'left'?" That is the key to understanding what is a 'good' price vs an 'unreasonable' price for a business.
502, or is that just me?
How to Win the #FounderShowcase Pitch Competition
I've gotten very good advice in this thread. It is also a pitch, because HN is a good community for this sort of thing. I'm sorry the title mislead you.

Edit: I changed the title to better reflect the intent. Thanks for the feedback.
I conceive of leisure as either sky-blue or blank white.
I wonder how many people bounce from the twitter signup page. Every combination of my name is already taken on twitter and every few months I would go to sign up, but can't find a name that isn't taken. The impression they give you is that the name is very important and you can only pick it once. I also barely ever use facebook, but as I can just use my email I signed up long ago.
Is this a fixed sale per user per month (like a SAAS) or a user buys things with variance dependong on what they specifically needed to buy ? I am asking because you have 5500+ users with 76K revenue. Simple math says you make less than 2 dollars per user per month. So I am guessing it is more like one user buys stuff for 20 dollars while 20 other users did not do anything in a single month ?
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Nick Woodman: How I Bootstrapped GoPro
Dustin neglects in either post to mention what size his hands are. Subjectively some people will like the new size for this reason, and as he points out others will not. I personally like the format but I have abnormally large hands (I can palm a basketball). His thoughts on hand placement are spot on though.
GT does work with startups. Most projects I was offered were in the idea phase or prototypes.
I personally define "music industry" as whatever generates revenue for artists and their managers. I do agree that there's a lot of old growth in the current ecosystem of the music industry that's inevitably going to die off.
It's weird, like the article was written in 2006 when they first proposed CO2 geysers.

According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_geyser this only occurs in the south polar region and Curiosity is near the equator.

(Gale Crater: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolis_quadrangle)